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1 " The most important thing in life is to dare. The most complicated thing in life is to be afraid. The smartest thing in the world is to try to be a moral person. "
― Shimon Peres
2 " We should use our imagination more than our memory. "
3 " If you have more dreams than achievements-you're young. "
4 " The bigger the dreams and aspirations a person has, the younger he is! "
5 " If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time. "
6 " If you eat three times a day you'll be fed but if you read three times a day you'll be wise". "
7 " When a friend makes a mistake, the friend remains a friend, and the mistake remains a mistake". "
8 " Find a cause that's larger than yourself and then give your life to it. "
9 " There are two things that cannot be achieved in life unless you close your eyes a little bit. And that's love and peace. If you want perfection you won't obtain either of them. "
10 " If an expert says it can’t be done, get another expert. "
― Shimon Peres , No Room for Small Dreams: The Decisions That Made Israel Great
11 " Far too often, especially under stress (and few things could have been more stressful than the Entebbe crisis), we turn inward and close down. Believing that distraction is the greatest danger, our analysis simplifies in hope of increasing not the odds of success, necessarily, but the chance we will be certain about what the outcome will be. "
12 " It was not me that changed; it was the situation that changed. "
13 " Optimists and pessimists die the same way. They just live differently. "
14 " Ben-Gurion once said that in Israel, “in order to be a realist, you must believe in miracles.” After such extraordinary achievement in science and technology and human creativity, how could we be anything but believers in miracles, faithful to the imaginations that are capable of conceiving them, and committed to the efforts to bring them to life? Ben-Gurion was right: realism in Israel is nothing less than the impossible made real. "
15 " Making peace is not a simple endeavor. It is a constant struggle. But its complexity should not overshadow its purpose. "
16 " My only regret is not having dreamed more. I got my life as a gift. I’ll give it up without an overdraft. "
17 " We may soon find that peace is made possible not through negotiation but through innovation. "
18 " without emboldening people to envisage the unlikely, we increase risk rather than diminish it. "
19 " How did this happen? How did we start up a nation from nothing and transform it into a nation of start-ups? The answer lies in a paradox: having nothing was at once our greatest challenge and our greatest blessing of all. Without natural resources, our hopes were tied to our own creativity. "
20 " The choice the pioneers faced was stark: succeed or starve. "
